[pypy-dev] Release date for PyPy 2.0 beta 2?

[Dinu Gherman]

Maciej Fijalkowski:

> http://buildbot.pypy.org/nightly/trunk/

Thanks.

> For what is worth, you picked up a very terrible program - this
> program exercises long implementation, not "how fast you run python
> programs". A new pypy is ~30% slower than cpython, which we find
> reasonable (because it's runtime time), if you want faster pick gmpy.
> GMP however has no means of recovering from a MemoryError.

It was an example from a given context. Clearly, it doesn't show many 
different features to optimize. 

> How do you want to benchmark python compilers on this? Can anyone do
> something more sensible than just call operations on longs?

I compared it also with a version with serialized tuple assignments 
which shows an improvement of around 2.5 % on CPython, but no real
change on PyPy, which is kind of what I hoped.

Regards,

Dinu